Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-15
LIQUOR STATISTICS.
Wonderful Increase in the Consump'
ton of Beer in thaUnited States
With Decrease in Whisky.
The Naval Department in Preparing TO
Establish a Strong Naval Reserve
Meets With Encouragement.
a Texas Bank Muhlates One Thousand
Dollars in New rJotes at It's Own
ExpeuEe-Pensions Granted.
Specialize the Gazette,
A NAVAL RESERVE.

A NAVAL RESERVE.
| WASHINGTON, April IA plan is
being prepared at the Navy Department
| fer the establishment of 8 naval reserve
or volunteer navy somewhat on the style
of the British naval reserve. 1t is under
stood that the yacht clubs along the
coast are greatly in favor of the scheme.
! PERMITTED IT.
| Information has reached here that the
! Mexican government permitted the publ
cation in the Official organ Of the CORE
| spOndenCe about the seizure Of the
| schooner "RebeCca," for which the
! United States Senate called and the fres-
! ident declined to make public.
! PUNCHED HOLES IN THEM.
| The Treasury Department received
| to DAY from bank IN Texas a package of
small certificates TOR redemption. In tying
the package hole had been punched up
| through each note and g cord passed
| through the aperture. The Treasury Dc
partment returned the notes to the bank
with a statement that such mutilation is
illegal.
FROM LANHAM.
! Commissioner of Agriculture Colman
received to-day q letter from Congress-
man Lanham, dated April 10, stating tnat
| the drouth in certain counties of Texas
! still continues and that the suffering in
consequence is hourly increasing, The
! letter thanks the commissioner for for
warding seed to the county judges in the
drouth stricken region of Texas.
POSTAL ORDERS ISSUED TO-DAY.
| Postotlice at Indiancla, Calhoun county,
| discontinued.
New postmaster and new office: Azrod
| d. Smith, MCClannshan, Falls county,
| Tex.
Pensions issued to-day: John c AnglfD,
! Big Springs; Henry G. Jacobs, Albany :;
| John Annis, S-nior.
HOW MUCH WE DRINK.
| WASHINGTON, April l4-TWenty or
more pages OF the report of the Chief Of
the BGreau OF Statistics, just out, are de
voted to the "C0nsumption Of distilled
aud malt liquors and Wines" and esti-
mates made by recognized authorities
were given on the various features OF
this subject. In round numbers the con-
sumption of distilled spirits, domestic
and imported, IN this country is shown to
have increased from 100000 gallons in
1910 to 100000 in 1886 OF wines,
from 500, 900 10 % 600 OO0 gallons. OF
malt liquors from q, 900, 900 t. $4,000 900
Consumption per capita during the same
period decreased as fe92rss distilled
spirits from about two and One-haf gal
Ions to about one and One-fOurth gallons,
and the Increase as regards wines from
tWenty-nine One-hundred,hs to thirty
ty-eight One-hundredths gallons, am
malt liquors from less than One-hsIf to
more than eleven gallons.
An elaborate statement made by +. n.
Barrett, editor of the New York Grocer,
by request of he chief of the bureau is
given, which sets forth, among
other things, that the present
average expenditure in the country per
annum for malt and spurious liquors and
beer at retail is 500, 100000. The drink
ing population i estimated to be in 1886
IA, 925, All, making the average eXpend1-
ture per capita $40 80. There is reduced
use Of wine as a beverage. During this
period he says the consumption of coffee
has risen from 2-l0 pounds per capita
to 8 11-100 pounds. Do not these facts
show that the miIder stimulants are
driving out their fiery competitors
and is it not due to the temperance ques-
ton? Mr.. Barrett says the wholesale
cost of liquors for which the retailers re-
ceive 800, 900, 900 is not more than $780,
900, 600. He makes brief calculation of
the cost of liquors as compared with that
of food, clothing and shelter, reaching the
conclusion that the American people eX-
pend from SIP to 81 for the necessaries
named to every 81 paid out for liquor.
James A. Webb, New York, furnishes
statement to the effect that only
10 per cent. of the distilled spirits
consumed in this country are used
for medicinal purposes, 80 per
cent being used as a beverage. From q
table covering five years. ending with
1885, it is learned that the consumption
of distilled spirits per capita has steadily
increased in France from 94-l00 gallons
to l 32-100; that it has varied in this
country from l 46 100 in 1888
to l 24-10O gallons in 1884, and
1885, that the United Kingdom consumes
little more than gallon per capita, and
that the consumption in Germany has
decreased from one and thirty-two
one bundredths in 1881 to one
aud fourteen one hundrtdths IN
1885. France during the same period
increased her wine consumption
from eighteen and one-haf to nearly
thirty-seven gallons, while this country
duu VIC UHiIeu hiuSuOlI, uegluulHS WIN
less than half gallon per head, shows a
falling off. In beer consumption during
the same period, the United States in
creased her average from g little less
than ten to a little more than fifty gal
Ions. The United Kingdom held her own
at about thirty gallons and Germany at
about twenty gallons.
BUT ONE ALTERNATIVE TO CATTLENIEN.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-The Secretary
of the Interior upon the consideration of
request presented by cattle owners in
Texas for the establishment of new cat
tie trail through the Chickasaw territory,
has decided that there is no law which
Empowers the Interior D. psrtment to
make an appropriation of such 8 portion
Of the land of the ChickasaW Nation as
would be required for the establishment
| of such trail. Cattle owners in Texas
have complained 70 the Secretary of the
Interior against the action of the Chicka-
saws in the Indian Territory in levy